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Jeffrey Lewis is the founding publisher of the Arms Control Wonk blog and a scholar that the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.

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Trump’s Reality-Show Presidency Is Good TV—and Bad Diplomacy

VANITY ALONE

Trump believes a few hostile tweets and promises of aid will get Kim Jong Un to abandon his nuclear weapons. He believes this because that’s how it works on television.

Jeffrey Lewis | Published Jun 11, 2018
opinion

Bolton to Kim: Give Up Nukes Like Gaddafi—the Guy We Killed

MUSTACHE-MONGER

Trump’s incoming national security adviser is sending the exact wrong message to Pyongyang. Maybe because deep down he really wants to bomb it.

Jeffrey Lewis | Published Mar 29, 2018
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Fitness-Tracker App Exposes Missile Command Center

TMI

A ‘heat map’ of Strava users published this weekend revealed sensitive military bases across the world—and hackers could do even more with the data.

Jeffrey Lewis | Published Jan 28, 2018
opinion

A Modest Proposal for Striking North Korea

DUMP

The target? The country’s most secure sh*thole.

Jeffrey Lewis | Published Jan 14, 2018
opinion

Trump Is Bluffing On North Korea

MAD HATTER

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Jeffrey Lewis | Published Jan 06, 2018

Satellite Pics Show North Korea Readying a Year of Missiles

INCOMING

Team Trump can push Kim Jong Un all it wants. He’s building the infrastructure for more missile launches—many, many more.

Jeffrey Lewis | Published Dec 29, 2017

North Korea’s Terrifying Reveal: Secret Missile Bases

TICK TICK TICK

We should consider it a likely possibility that North Korea has dispersed a number of ICBMs around the Hermit Kingdom.

Jeffrey Lewis | Published Jul 28, 2017

A North Korean Missile Could Trigger U.S.-Russia Nuclear War

OOPS?

America’s missile defense system could knock a North Korean ICBM out of the sky—and potentially start World War III.

Jeffrey Lewis | Published Jul 10, 2017

Forget Alaska. N. Korea Might Soon Be Able to Nuke New York.

Get Real

After the shock of North Korea’s ICBM test wore off, pundits began to reassure themselves: ‘It’s only Alaska that’s in range. That is fine.’ Here’s why they’re wrong.

Jeffrey Lewis | Published Jul 06, 2017

North Korea’s Nuclear and America Has No Plan to Stop It

THE NEW COLD WAR

Trump can tweet all he wants but this is our new reality: Kim Jong Un has nukes, now he has an intercontinental missile, and he will use them to threaten the U.S.

Jeffrey Lewis | Published Jul 04, 2017

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